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Coral vs Anthozoan - What's the difference?

coral | anthozoan |

As a proper noun coral

is .

As a noun anthozoan is

(marine biology) a marine invertebrate of the class anthozoa, such as a sea anemone or coral.

coral

English

(wikipedia coral)

Noun

  • (uncountable) A hard substance made of the limestone skeletons of marine polyps.
  • (countable) A colony of marine polyps.
  • (countable) A somewhat yellowish pink colour, the colour of red coral.
  • The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their colour.
  • (historical) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Made of coral.
  • Having the yellowish pink colour of coral.

    • Derived terms

    * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * coralise/coralize * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

    See also

    * atoll * barrier reef * dactylozooid * fringing reef * gonophore * gorgonian * Great Barrier Reef * madrepore * millepore * sea fan * sea whip *

    Anagrams

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    anthozoan

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (marine biology) A marine invertebrate of the class Anthozoa, such as a sea anemone or coral
  • *2001 , (Anthea Bell), translating WG Sebald, Austerlitz , Penguin 2011, p. 126:
  • *:In his childhood, he said, he used to walk beside the chalk cliffs of Devon and Cornwall, […] admiring the endless diversity of the semi-sentient marvels oscillating between the vegetable, animal and mineral kingdoms, the zooids and corallines, sea anemones, sea fans and sea feathers, the anthozoans and crustaceans over which the tide washed twice a day […].

    • Related terms

    * anthozoic

    See also

    * (Anthozoa)